"Mr. President I am grateful to you and I'm humbled by your confidence in me," Kavanaugh said to Trump.

Kavanaugh spoke at length about his family.

He joked that that his daughter's sports teams refer to him as "Coach K." -- a reference to Duke University's championship basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski.

"I thank God every day for my family," he said.

"I will tell each senator that I revere the Constitution. I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our Constitutional republic," Kavanaugh said in his speech, as he now awaits his Capitol Hill hearing.

Kavanaugh is a native of the District of Columbia and attended both Georgetown Preparatory School and Georgetown University.